United Airlines flight diverts
Digest more
Interesting Engineering on MSN
United flight’s ‘space debris’ scare turns out to be weather balloon, probe finds
A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City last week after an object hit its windshield at 36,000 feet. The impact cracked the glass and injured one of the pilots,
The strike occurred Thursday, during a United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles. Images shared on social media showed that one of the two large windows at the front of a 737 MAX aircraft was significantly cracked. Related images also reveal a pilot’s arm that has been cut multiple times by what appear to be small shards of glass.
The Independent on MSN
Plane struck by suspected space debris mid flight
Plane struck by suspected space debris mid flight - The ‘one in a trillion’ incident, which left pilot with cuts on his arm, would be the first collision of its kind
On Oct. 16, United Airlines flight 1093 took off from Denver International Airport at 5:51 a.m. MDT and was headed to Los Angeles, according to FlightAware, but an unidentified object at an unusually high altitude, 36,000 feet, struck the windshield, forcing the flight to divert to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Next year, SpaceX is keen to move toward launching the Starship once every two weeks from its Starbase site in southern Texas, and also from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it’s completing the infrastructure to handle additional Starship missions.
Space.com on MSN
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites to orbit on Falcon 9 rocket's record-breaking 31st flight (video)
A Falcon 9 carrying 28 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 1:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT). It was the record-breaking 31st mission for this Falcon 9's first stage, a booster designated 1067.
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.
For high school and college-level students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics , the unique learning experiences provided by NASA are a dream come true. Instead of
Starship Flight 11 will look a lot like Flight 10, if all goes according to plan. On that most recent launch, which took place on Aug. 26, Super Heavy steered itself to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes after liftoff, and Ship did that same in the Indian Ocean roughly an hour later.
Feedback